- physician-assisted suicide: a practice in which a terminally ill person requests a medical practitioner to administer a lethal dose of medication
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PAS abbreviation for
pas
(pä),USA pronunciation n., pl. pas.
- Foreign Termsa step or series of steps in ballet.
- Foreign Termsright of precedence.
- Latin passus. See pace1
- French
- 1695–1705
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pas /pɑː; French: pɑ/ n ( pl pas /pɑːz; French: pɑ/)
- a dance step or movement, esp in ballet
'PAS' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
apace
- Brel
- diapason
- Dover
- faux pas
- Giraudoux
- Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- pan-
- panto-
- pas de basque
- pas de deux
- Pas-de-Calais
- pas op
- Paz
- pupa
- Sherpa
- adagio
- air passage
- antepast
- antipasto
- arras
- Atakapa
- bird of passage
- break
- bridge passage
- chalupa
- chopa
- chou pastry
- clanger
- coda
- common
- Danish pastry
- danseur noble
- deck passage
- Drake Passage
- French pastry
- gaffe
- grand passion
- great pastern bone
- Hunkpapa
- kipa
- Maricopa
- middle passage
- misstep
- Mona Passage
- Northeast Passage
- Northwest Passage
- pace
- pachuco
- palapa